1. Emerging and Re-emerging Infections in Children: COVID/ MIS-C, Zika, Ebola, Measles, Varicella, Pertussis ... Immunizations
- Author
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Carol C Chen and Anne Whitehead
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Whooping Cough ,Re-emerging infections ,Disease ,Vaccine-preventable ,Measles ,Communicable Diseases, Emerging ,Pediatrics ,Article ,Dengue ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Chickenpox ,Vaccination Refusal ,Pandemic ,Medicine ,Humans ,Intensive care medicine ,Child ,Physician's Role ,business.industry ,Transmission (medicine) ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Zika Virus Infection ,Public health ,Incidence ,Decision Trees ,Vaccination ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola ,medicine.disease ,Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome ,Malaria ,Emerging infections ,Emergency Medicine ,Chikungunya Fever ,Public Health ,business ,Travel-Related Illness ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Traveler - Abstract
The role of the emergency provider lies at the forefront of recognition and treatment of novel and re-emerging infectious diseases in children. Familiarity with disease presentations that might be considered rare, such as vaccine-preventable and non-endemic illnesses, is essential in identifying and controlling outbreaks. As we have seen thus far in the novel coronavirus pandemic, susceptibility, severity, transmission, and disease presentation can all have unique patterns in children. Emergency providers also have the potential to play a public health role by using lessons learned from the phenomena of vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
- Published
- 2021